Episode 92: When Your Ex Doesn't Believe in ADHD with Carolyn Tate

What happens when you can see your child needs support, and the other parent doesn’t believe ADHD is real?

In this episode of the ADHD Families Podcast, Sharon Collon sits down with Carolyn Tate, former parenting and health journalist, late-diagnosed ADHDer and founder of Women’s Divorce Academy. Over seven years, Carolyn has helped close to a thousand women through separation and divorce.

Carolyn shares her own story: the New Year’s Eve she knew her marriage was over, the overwhelm that stretched her divorcex out for years, and the two and a half years it took to get her daughter assessed and supported when her ex-husband wasn’t on board.

This is a practical conversation about co-parenting a child with ADHD after separation. No villains, no court battles. Just how to advocate for your child, when to stop trying to convince the other parent, how to handle two homes with two sets of rules, and how to look after yourself when you’re carrying most of the load.

If you’re separated, divorcing or thinking about it, and parenting a child with ADHD, this episode gives you a clear place to start.

👀 In This Episode, Sharon Covers

✅ Advocating for an ADHD diagnosis when your ex doesn’t accept it

✅ When to stop trying to convince the other parent and put that energy into your child

✅ What Carolyn’s ADHD gave her through separation

✅ Parallel parenting when you can’t co-parent together

✅ Two homes, two sets of rules: what you can and can’t control

✅ Why kids with ADHD are more adaptable than we give them credit for